Shouldn’t we be searching for a Philippine Idol, not a Philippine-American Idol?
As soon as the waves of the “Philippine Idol Search” tsunami hit the coasts of the Philippine islands, I received several calls from some of my friends telling me that they would courageously audition. Well, that wasn’t such a surprise for me. After all, who wouldn’t want to follow the footsteps of a certain Jasmine Trias? Who wouldn’t want to make the country proud? Who wouldn’t want to be in the Mc Donald’s commercial? (tsk tsk tsk… talking about how fame-hungry we are…)
After ABC 5 got the franchise for the world-famous talent search "American Idol" (AI), other countries started to get anxious because they know that the Filipinos would surely get the better off them. Again, the Pinoy’s are ready to prove that they are very talented people in a much larger and hotter scale. There are over 50 'Idol' productions all over the world and the Philippine Idol will be the fifth in Asia after Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and India. Accordingly, everyone is excited, eagerly waiting for its July launch. Aren’t advertisements all around? ABC 5 is drumming “it” so loud (which ABSCBN and GMA are envious of).
Moreover, I think the rationale why we, the Filipinos, get so spellbound by this kind of search is because we certainly love to sing and dance our hearts out. Well, lets just say that we are truly in touch with our emotions and expressing them is something we are truly good at.
Yet, given that reason, I couldn’t really imagine then, why our favorite contest pieces would be the songs of Mariah Carey, Whitney Huston or the likes? Does that mean to say that we “feel” the songs of other artists much more than our own? Or the reason is that we simply have no choice.
Well basically, I hear a lot of lovely songs composed by Filipinos on the radio and television and in fact these songs make me feel extreme emotions. Yet, when I asked my friend about it, she told me that she’d rather pick a song by the world famous singers rather than taking the risk of being called corny or baduy. She further said “If you watch television and listen to the radio more often, you’d understand why these songs are called the hit.”
Honestly, I disagree.
As soon as the waves of the “Philippine Idol Search” tsunami hit the coasts of the Philippine islands, I received several calls from some of my friends telling me that they would courageously audition. Well, that wasn’t such a surprise for me. After all, who wouldn’t want to follow the footsteps of a certain Jasmine Trias? Who wouldn’t want to make the country proud? Who wouldn’t want to be in the Mc Donald’s commercial? (tsk tsk tsk… talking about how fame-hungry we are…)
After ABC 5 got the franchise for the world-famous talent search "American Idol" (AI), other countries started to get anxious because they know that the Filipinos would surely get the better off them. Again, the Pinoy’s are ready to prove that they are very talented people in a much larger and hotter scale. There are over 50 'Idol' productions all over the world and the Philippine Idol will be the fifth in Asia after Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and India. Accordingly, everyone is excited, eagerly waiting for its July launch. Aren’t advertisements all around? ABC 5 is drumming “it” so loud (which ABSCBN and GMA are envious of).
Moreover, I think the rationale why we, the Filipinos, get so spellbound by this kind of search is because we certainly love to sing and dance our hearts out. Well, lets just say that we are truly in touch with our emotions and expressing them is something we are truly good at.
Yet, given that reason, I couldn’t really imagine then, why our favorite contest pieces would be the songs of Mariah Carey, Whitney Huston or the likes? Does that mean to say that we “feel” the songs of other artists much more than our own? Or the reason is that we simply have no choice.
Well basically, I hear a lot of lovely songs composed by Filipinos on the radio and television and in fact these songs make me feel extreme emotions. Yet, when I asked my friend about it, she told me that she’d rather pick a song by the world famous singers rather than taking the risk of being called corny or baduy. She further said “If you watch television and listen to the radio more often, you’d understand why these songs are called the hit.”
Honestly, I disagree.
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